Catherine Drinker Bowen
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Catherine Drinker Bowen est une écrivaine américaine née le 1er janvier 1897 à Haverford en Pennsylvanie et morte le 1er novembre 1973 dans la même ville. Elle étudie le violon et envisage une carrière musicale avant de devenir finalement écrivaine. Malgré son manque de formation littéraire elle devient un auteur de best-sellers reconnu. Elle écrit aussi des biographies sur quelque grands musiciens. En 1958, elle obtient le National Book Award pour son livre The Lion and the Throne: The Life and Times of Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634), une des avocats d'Élisabeth Ire. Son dernier livre, Family Portrait est encensé par la critique. A sa mort en 1973, elle travaillait sur une biographie de Benjamin Franklin qui sera publiée après sa mort Elle était mariée à Ezra Bowen, auteur de Social Economics, leur fils Ezra Bowen est mort à Westport en 1996.
Œuvres
- Beloved Friend: The Story of Tchaikowsky and Nadejda Von Meck (1937)
- Free artist: The story of Anton and Nicholas Rubinstein (1939)
- Yankee from Olympus: Justice Holmes and His Family (1944)
- The Lion and the Throne: The Life and Times of Sir Edward Coke (1957)
- Adventures of a Biographer (1959)
- Francis Bacon: The Temper of a Man (1963)
- Miracle at Philadelphia (1966)
- John Adams and the American Revolution
- Bernard DeVoto: Historian, critic, and fighter
- The Most Dangerous Man in America: Scenes from the Life of Benjamin Franklin
- Family Portrait
- Story of the oak tree
- Lord of the law
- A History of Lehigh University
- Biography: The Craft and the Calling (1968)
- The writing of biography
Liens externes
Catégories :
- Naissance en 1897
- Décès en 1973
- Écrivain américain du XXe siècle
- Femme de lettres américaine
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